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Martin Waltham Bates letter to Joseph Boyd

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0047
Abstract

Autograph letter from Delaware Senator, Martin Waltham Bates, to Joseph Boyd, complying with his request for an autograph on January 30, 1858.

Dates: 1858 January 30

Joseph Parsons Comegys letter to E. W. Gilpin

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0074
Abstract

Autograph letter from lawyer Joseph Parsons Comegys, future United States senator (D-Delaware) and Delaware Supreme Court chief justice, to E. W. Gilpin, the president of the Union Bank of Delaware, in response to a request for an examination of the safety of the mortgage held by three individuals.

Dates: 1848 November 13

John Dickinson and Thomas McKean letter to Caesar Rodney

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0054
Abstract

Letter from John Dickinson and Thomas McKean, delegates to the Continental Congress, to Caesar Rodney, then President of Delaware. Writing at the direction of Congress, Dickinson and McKean request Rodney appoint a sufficient guard to take custody of sixty-four prisoners captured aboard the British sloop-of-war Harlem.

Dates: 1779 July 22-1779 July 30

James Kirk papers

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0145
Abstract

One autograph letter from Thomas N. Lidiard to Delaware printer James Kirk regarding a subscription to The Delawarean and a receipt signed by Kirk for consignment of goods by Collins and M. Lester from Dover, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore railroad.

Dates: 1871 November 30 -1872 January 18

Richard Peters letter to George Stevenson

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0041
Abstract

Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania, Richard Peters, wrote this one-page handwritten and signed letter to Dover surveyor, George Stevenson, requesting a survey of land in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, for Leonard Humphrys, on May 16, 1747. Includes watermark.

Dates: 1747 May 16

Curtis W. Wright letter to James Kirk

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0138
Abstract

One handwritten letter on official letterhead by Delaware Secretary of State Curtis W. Wright to James Kirk regarding a subscription to The Delawarean for Thomas Barker of Millsborough, Sussex County, Delaware, dated July 6, 1870.

Dates: 1870 July 6